satin : Idioms & Phrases

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Denmark satin

  • a kind of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes.
Webster 1913

Farmer's satin

  • . See under Farmer.
Webster 1913

Farmers' satin

  • a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath.
Webster 1913

Satin bird

  • noun of southeast Australia; male is glossy violet blue; female is light grey-green
    Ptilonorhynchus violaceus; satin bird.
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  • (Zoöl.), an Australian bower bird. Called also satin grackle.
Webster 1913

satin bowerbird

  • noun of southeast Australia; male is glossy violet blue; female is light grey-green
    Ptilonorhynchus violaceus; satin bird.
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Satin flower

  • noun southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration
    money plant; honesty; Lunaria annua; silver dollar; satinpod.
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  • (Bot.) See Honesty, 4.
Webster 1913

satin leaf

  • noun tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit
    damson plum; Chrysophyllum oliviforme; satinleaf; caimitillo.
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Satin spar

  • . (Min.) (a) A fine fibrous variety of calcite, having a pearly luster . (b) A similar variety of gypsum.
Webster 1913

Satin sparrow

  • (Zoöl.), the shining flycatcher (Myiagra nitida) of Tasmania and Australia. The upper surface of the male is rich blackish green with a metallic luster.
Webster 1913

satin stitch

  • noun flat stitches worked so closely as to resemble satin
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Satin stone

  • satin spar.
Webster 1913

satin walnut

  • noun reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture
    hazelwood; sweet gum; red gum.
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satin weave

  • noun a weave in which the filling and warp threads intersect in such a way as to give a smooth compact surface with no distinguishable twill line
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